HTML email using GMAILR - body is blank #57

lwasser · 2016-04-01T19:25:53Z

hi @jimhester - this is in response to your twitter suggestion. I am having a hard time getting
body_html to properly send email in r using GMAILR. I have tried numerous different approaches and the result is always the same - an email with no body content when i use html_body.

I presume that I am doing something wrong however i can not figure out what that might be. I just installed GMAILR the other day. I am running R 3.2.3.

suppressPackageStartupMessages(library(gmailr))
# custom json file
gmail_auth("data-institute-email.json", scope = 'compose')

## the code below sends a nice text formatted email
## the $body slot is populated correctly in test_email
test_email <- mime(
  To = "leahwasser@gmail.com",
  From = "neondataskills@gmail.com",
  Subject = "this is just a gmailr test",
  body = "Can you hear me now?")

The next chunk returns a blank email and the $body slot in test_email is also blank

# this returns a BLANK email
test_email <- mime(
  To = "leahwasser@gmail.com",
  From = "neondataskills@gmail.com",
  Subject = "this is just a gmailr test",
  html_body = "Can <b>you hear</b> me now?", type = "text/html")

# this also sends a blank email
test_email <- mime(
  To = "leahwasser@gmail.com",
  From = "neondataskills@gmail.com",
  Subject = "this is just a gmailr test",
  html_body = "<html><body>Can <b>you hear</b> me now?</body></html>")

to send the email (this works fine)

ret_val <- send_message(test_email)

Any suggestions that you have area greatly appreciated!
Leah

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jimhester · 2016-04-01T20:48:57Z

Try the following which works for me

test_email <- mime(
  To = "leahwasser@gmail.com",
  From = "neondataskills@gmail.com",
  Subject = "this is just a gmailr test")
test_email <- html_body(test_email, "Can <b>you</b> hear me now?")
create_draft(test_email)

lwasser · 2016-04-01T20:57:18Z

Thank you @jimhester for the feedback.
create_draft returned the following error:

> create_draft(test_email)
Error in UseMethod("from") : 
  no applicable method for 'from' applied to an object of class "gmail_draft"

My code:

# From Jim Hester
test_email <- mime(
  To = "leahwasser@gmail.com",
  From = "neondataskills@gmail.com",
  Subject = "this is just a gmailr test")
test_email <- html_body(test_email, "Can <b>you</b> hear me now?")

create_draft(test_email)
ret_val <- send_message(test_email)

What did I miss?

jimhester · 2016-04-01T20:59:01Z

Try installing the latest version from GitHub.

# install.packages("devtools")
install_github("jimhester/gmailr")

lwasser · 2016-04-01T21:29:35Z

OK -- progress! I was able to create a draft once successfully. However, i have not been able to send_message successfully and now after one draft i am getting the error:

Error in loadNamespace(name) : there is no package called ‘crayon’

both when i send_message and create_draft

I triied to install the package crayon but when i do i get another odd output from both send and create draft as follows:

 create_draft(test_email)
Id: r-5335522915222148839
To: 
From: 
Date: 
Subject: 

> send_message(test_email)
Id: 153d3bae42b75989
To: 
From: 
Date: 
Subject:

lwasser · 2016-04-01T22:01:38Z

Hi @jimhester

One other note. When I install from github and try to authenticate, it says it can't find OAuth2 in the browser.

So this line

gmail_auth("data-institute-email.json", scope = 'compose')

Fails. When I install from cran I'm able to authenticate with no problem.
Leah

jimhester · 2016-04-01T23:22:47Z

Try installing from GitHub again, I have fixed a few things which should make this work better for you.

You need to use the secret_file parameter to read the secret from the json. Alternatively the github version packages a secret file so you can use that without needing to supply a file.

gmail_auth(secret_file = "data-institute-email.json", scope = 'compose')

I am currently getting a Bounce error when trying to send the email, but the message still seems to go through... Creating a draft with create_draft() then sending that does work however, I am not sure what is going wrong with directly sending...

jimhester · 2016-04-01T23:35:56Z

Ok d5db6a7 now sends without Bouncing, so try updating again and let me know if it doesn't work.

lwasser · 2016-04-02T02:50:43Z

Thank you. Please tell me if am doing this wrong. I got an error on the install. So I uninstalled gmailr and made sure it was gone in my library dir on my mac. I then installed from github and got the following message / error (at the very bottom):

Downloading` GitHub repo jimhester/gmailr@master
from URL https://api.github.com/repos/jimhester/gmailr/zipball/master
Installing gmailr
Downloading GitHub repo gaborcsardi/argufy@173245a7e
from URL https://api.github.com/repos/gaborcsardi/argufy/zipball/173245a7e
Installing argufy
'/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/bin/R' --no-site-file  \
  --no-environ --no-save --no-restore CMD INSTALL  \
  '/private/var/folders/x9/0p6djscn2890hpkvmlz4nx0nn42rsp/T/Rtmpatr7rD/devtools6021099596c/gaborcsardi-argufy-173245a'  \
  --library='/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.2/Resources/library'  \
  --install-tests 

* installing *source* package ‘argufy’ ...
** R
** inst
** tests
** preparing package for lazy loading
** help
*** installing help indices
** building package indices
** testing if installed package can be loaded
* DONE (argufy)
Skipping 1 unavailable package: argufy
'/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/bin/R' --no-site-file  \
  --no-environ --no-save --no-restore CMD INSTALL  \
  '/private/var/folders/x9/0p6djscn2890hpkvmlz4nx0nn42rsp/T/Rtmpatr7rD/devtools6028b6cef9/jimhester-gmailr-d5db6a7'  \
  --library='/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.2/Resources/library'  \
  --install-tests 

* installing *source* package ‘gmailr’ ...
** R
** tests
** preparing package for lazy loading
** help
Error : /private/var/folders/x9/0p6djscn2890hpkvmlz4nx0nn42rsp/T/Rtmpatr7rD/devtools6028b6cef9/jimhester-gmailr-d5db6a7/man/id.gmail_messages.Rd: Sections \title, and \name must exist and be unique in Rd files
ERROR: installing Rd objects failed for package ‘gmailr’
* removing ‘/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.2/Resources/library/gmailr’
* restoring previous ‘/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.2/Resources/library/gmailr’
Error: Command failed (1)

jimhester · 2016-04-02T05:22:18Z

Sorry that was an inadvertent error, sorry for the confusion. It should now be fixed.

lwasser · 2016-04-02T16:32:29Z

Ok... it installed perfectly but i'm still getting the following error (it authenticates and then throws an error when i try to create draft or send_email.

Waiting for authentication in browser...
Press Esc/Ctrl + C to abort
Authentication complete.
Error: .onLoad failed in loadNamespace() for 'crayon', details:
  call: get0(oNam, envir = ns)
  error: lazy-load database '/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.2/Resources/library/memoise/R/memoise.rdb' is corrupt
In addition: Warning message:
In get0(oNam, envir = ns) : internal error -3 in R_decompress1
> send_message(test_email)
Error: .onLoad failed in loadNamespace() for 'crayon', details:
  call: get0(oNam, envir = ns)
  error: lazy-load database '/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.2/Resources/library/memoise/R/memoise.rdb' is corrupt
In addition: Warning messages:
1: In get0(oNam, envir = ns) : restarting interrupted promise evaluation
2: In get0(oNam, envir = ns) : internal error -3 in R_decompress1

the path there is where my packages are stored so is this error on my end?
Thank you!

jimhester · 2016-04-02T16:37:32Z

Something strange is going on. Does this happen if you start an entirely new session? You may want to try reinstalling the crayon package from CRAN as well.

lwasser · 2016-04-02T20:50:40Z

ok! Progress. Iyou are right - something was weird with my session. I restarted.
Now i'm not able to use gmail_auth after i install from github. i get the following information in the browser if this helps:

scope=https://www.googleapis.com/auth/gmail.compose
response_type=code
redirect_uri=http://localhost:1410
state=H8JTSXEbMZ
client_id=data-institute-email.json

However, if i install from cran. run gmail_auth AND then install from github, i can send an html email successfully! it does ask me to authenticate a few other items (create draft, etc) when i use create_draft but then it works.

Is there something there that is different in gmail_auth in the git version compared to the cran version?

Thank you so much for working through this with me!

abhishek1608 · 2018-05-18T11:15:06Z

@jimhester is there any way we can send whole html file by placing the directory?

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